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The Earth's Interior

The Earth's Interior
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 6 to 8
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   6.77

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    eggshell, Oldham, swirly, Mohorovicic, magnetism, tectonic, yolk, hard-boiled, in-between, theory, lava, layer, volcanic, mainly, mantle, molten
     content words:    Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Isaac Newton

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The Earth's Interior
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     If you take an Easter egg, and dye it a swirly blue, green, and white, what would you have?
 
2     It might look like the earth, as we see it in photographs from space. Now, if you slice this little model of the earth in half, you can see the layers that it is made of.
 
3     The earth has an outside layer called the crust (the eggshell), an in-between layer called the mantle (the egg white), and an inner core (the yolk).

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